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By | January 01, 0001

Department of conjecture

Letters to the Portland Editor, January 29, 2010
The Haiti disaster will not serve to turn a state from toss-up to safely Republican as the George W. Bush Administration's calculated response to Hurricane Katrina did in Louisiana.
By PORTLAND PHOENIX LETTERS | January 27, 2010

Reading is fundamentalist

Conservative screeds dominated the book charts this year. Will future election results follow the bestseller lists?
In 2009, liberals held firm control of the presidency, the US Senate, and the US House of Representatives. But there was one realm where conservatives dominated: the New York Times bestseller list.
By DAVID S. BERNSTEIN | December 22, 2009

Down in the flood

Politics and other mistakes
A few years ago, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (motto: Cornsistently Rong Abowt Everyting) informed me I was buying a house in a flood zone. FEMA had a map that showed where the waters of the semi-mighty Carrabassett River had surged over its banks a decade or so earlier and inundated my property.
By AL DIAMON | August 19, 2009

By | January 01, 0001

Review: Mine

Watch, animal lovers, and be stupefied.
Early in Geralyn Pezanoski's documentary, a news clip shows George Bush proclaiming, "The world saw this tidal wave of disaster descend upon the Gulf Coast, and now they're gonna see a tidal wave of compassion."
By BRETT MICHEL | April 15, 2009

Blown up

Shoney Lamar proves there’s life after Florida
Lamar’s voice both ravages and exults in the past 10 years of the Pained Male Pop Singer.
By MATT PARISH | October 08, 2008

Bakst hits the road

M. Charles, a bright light amongst columnists, will be missed at the Other Paper
We echo the words of BeloJo columnist Bob Kerr when he wrote last week that local readers will miss M. Charles Bakst when he retires after more than 40 years.
By PHILLIPE AND JORGE | September 10, 2008

Earthquake!

The threat is real. It could happen here. Is the city ready?
Picture buildings from Southie to West Somerville reduced to rubble. Dozens of three-alarm fires all over town. Tunnels flooded with seawater.
By MIKE MILIARD | February 27, 2008

Legend of the last

It all comes down to Will power
They all start the same way.
By PETER KEOUGH | December 12, 2007

A tragicomedy of errors

In an excerpt from his new book, The Fall of the House of Bush, author Craig Unger details how Bush is, well, screwing up the world
It was not until after George W. Bush and Dick Cheney were narrowly re-elected that many Americans began to realize that the Iraq War represented a dangerous moment in American history.
By CRAIG UNGER | November 20, 2007

Meanest of times

Politics and other mistakes
The field looks as if it’s been hit by a terrible disaster.
By AL DIAMON | November 07, 2007

Perfect Tenn

Jeremy Lawrence’s one-man show Everybody Expects Me to Write Another Streetcar
When Tennessee Williams summered in Provincetown in the early 1940s, Eugene O’Neill was the playwright most associated with the tip of the Cape.
By CAROLYN CLAY | October 04, 2007

Kennebunkport protest expected to draw around 5000

Protest round-up
Cindy Sheehan seems unable to stay away from the peace movement that she publicly cut ties with just over two months ago.
By DEIRDRE FULTON | August 22, 2007

Conflict

Battle on concrete plant rages in Cranston
These legal hurdles mean the stalemate will continue for quite a while.
By JESSICA KERRY | July 18, 2007

When sportscasters attack

Sports blotter: "From downtown!" edition
Each sports season carries a relatively small number of sportscaster arrests, but the ones we do get it are usually memorable.
By MATT TAIBBI | January 24, 2007

The abysmal response to Katrina shows misguided priorities

Domestic matters
The estimated $2.5 trillion to be spent by the US in Iraq would be better used to help our own suffering citizens.
By MARY ANN SORRENTINO | September 13, 2006

Mississippi blues

How a local Hurricane Katrina volunteer is changing the shape of relief work
Ever wonder what became of all the tax dollars and personal donations you sent to the Gulf Coast over the past year in the wake of Hurricane Katrina? Slideshow: Annie Card photographs the survivors and wreckage of Hurricane Katrina.
By NINA MACLAUGHLIN | August 29, 2006

Dam shame

Spike Lee won’t let New Orleans go away
In a few weeks, the country will remember one of the greatest disasters in its history.
By PETER KEOUGH | August 22, 2006

Feel-good movie of the summer

Oliver Stone: from the Hollywood crackpot of JFK to the Republican sellout of World Trade Center
With the upcoming November elections poised to determine the future of Congress, what better gift could Republicans ask for than a popular Hollywood movie that conjures the image that for five years has granted them power and impunity? Watch the trailer for World Trade Center (QuickTime) Off-Center: Oliver Stone's trite take on 9/11. By Peter Keough
By PETER KEOUGH | August 10, 2006

Stop whining and do your job

The White House and the media are not supposed to get along, stupid
A president with a history of antipathy toward the media complains openly about the “knee-jerk liberal press.”
By MARK JURKOWITZ | May 28, 2006

Revival meeting

Music, T-shirts, and other matters of life and death in post-Katrina New Orleans
Everywhere you looked during the first weekend of the 37th annual New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, the big theme was, of course, recovery.
By JON GARELICK | May 10, 2006

Apocalypse now and then

Doom, damnation, and other summer fun
With Snakes on a Plane and World Trade Center opening on the same day, this summer won’t be offering the usual escapist fare.
By PETER KEOUGH | May 03, 2006

Quotes and numbers, April 21, 2006

Bush's income, Cheney's millions, and this year's catastrophes
$735,180: President Bush’s 2005 adjusted gross income.
By | April 19, 2006

The relief of play

ROiL members act for change in Baton Rouge
Joanna Horton and Tessy Seward, members of the Portland theater activist group ROiL, recently traveled to the outskirts of Baton Rouge to bring the theatrical arts to the young people of a FEMA emergency trailer park.
By MEGAN GRUMBLING | April 05, 2006

FEMA was FUBAR

You know it, we know it, and the Department of Homeland Security knew it, too
In the wake of FEMA’s piss-poor response to the devastation wrought by Hurricane Katrina, the agency repeatedly insisted it had been prepared for the disaster.
By DAVID BERNSTEIN | March 24, 2006

Patient Zero

Sex in Sox city
Go figure: I'm a sex-advice columnist who never heeds her own advice.
By CHRISTINE | March 13, 2006

Break on through (to the other side)

Traveling Scholars and rock posters at the MFA, student annual at the SMFA, and Islamic drawings at the Sackler
Rachel Perry Welty sees art where many of us see annoying little things to be thrown away or deleted: the funny-shaped plastic tabs cleverly invented to close the bag around a loaf of bread; the identifying stickers found on most fruit; answering-machine messages left at wrong numbers.
By RANDI HOPKINS | January 28, 2010